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New Computers in Kevin St
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04-03-2009 6:22pm#1Seeing as I'm always complaining about them, I have to say I'm very happy about the new computers in the library in Kevin St that were put in today! Big 'oul widescreens on them! There's double sided printing as standard anymore too for 2c cheaper per page!
Finally something not to be annoyed at in the library! 0
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Creamy Goodness wrote: »have a look at the other labs like 306/117 they are in dire need of attention, mice missing, lan cables missing, monitor cables missing etc.
A117 seems pretty locked down for the non final year students lately.
Surely they still can't be missing Lan cables ffs. Ever heard of cable ties/locks?
Whats far worse I think is the fact any joe average can walk off the street, plug his lappy
into one of the access ports, and potentially wreck havoc on the network.
Virii could be spread across the Windows domains pretty easilly this way.
You would think DIT could implement a policy where a specific range of MAC addresses are assigned to each switch port to stop this, like a home network.
Even one of the Lecturer's in the school of Computing has mentioned this a few times
Ah, gotta love DIT:D0 -
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the lab is missing cables, i frequent that lab quite regularly.A117 seems pretty locked down for the non final year students lately.
Surely they still can't be missing Lan cables ffs. Ever heard of cable ties/locks?
Whats far worse I think is the fact any joe average can walk off the street, plug his lappy
into one of the access ports, and potentially wreck havoc on the network.
Virii could be spread across the Windows domains pretty easilly this way.
You would think DIT could implement a policy where a specific range of MAC addresses are assigned to each switch port to stop this, like a home network.
Even one of the Lecturer's in the school of Computing has mentioned this a few times
Ah, gotta love DIT:D
most of the equipment is locked to the back of the machine, whilst i can see why this is done it stupid in my book (well in a final year lab).
in dt2284 there's an 80% SDIS and 20% CSAA+Games.
now of those 80% of SDIS students around 70-80% are doing web based projects with an app server backend (apache/tomcat/jboss etc.) which if you've ever try to set up and use in a lab in kevin street is a pain in the bollocks.
tomcat takes 20 seconds to start up, if you write a servlet and compile it, you need to restart tomcat everytime a compile is made. so that's 30-40 seconds for every compile of something that takes milliseconds on my own machine.
the fact that 4th years don't have admin rights on any pc's in kevin street not even the final year labs (i bolded that for a reason
) means that anything installed has to be reinstalled on every log in. i use my laptop purely because developing in C with GTK+ is just way less head wrecking than windows
i often get this message:
"'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." when on windows :P
plus the machines are so fecking slow adds another reason why people have to use their laptops in that lab. A116 has much better computers yet final year labs which should be the priority labs are left to rot.
anywho's this has slightly deviated from the original topic
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